Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-06
GOOD ADVICE 10 PARENTS.
Somebody who Knows Gives valaabls
suggestioas an the Good Government
Of Hoy and Girls.

Somebody who Knows Givss vaiaabIs
suggestioas an the Good Government
Of BOys and Girls.
Il VEINS az n In this age Of civiliza-
ton that physical punishment ought
sary. A parent has full control OF q
child when it is young. and should keep
it.
II can never be done by whipping.
for boy that Is punished that Wav al
ways looks forward 10 the time when
he will be too large to be whipped. and
as he grows he has to be whipped a lit
tie harder every time. wrich In Itself
proves that form Of punishment to be
useless and wrong.
In any other method OF Furnishing Q
child a be shown that he Is simply en-
during the consequence Of . ~disobedient
sct, unless, OF course. more Injustice Is
practieed, Tor chill rem have q fine sense
OF justice and are not easily deceived by
p~retense Of II.
Too much punishment Is q dangerous
Is too little. It 10 when one has a
glimmer OF this idea that he quotes the
proverb, spare the rod" ETC., to fortify
himself, when the proverb would be
better forgotten. "ureat rewards DO
token a fallen state" The same L. true
OF much punishment.
The object Of all punishment is. OF
course, to improve a child. to trim OF.
or subdue. its faults OF character as they
appear, and give n better chance for all
the good qualities To develop. There
are ways OF Furnishing besides whipping
that will defeat this end. and the whole
subject Is q matter to be gravely con
sidered by parents Of young children.
l.iss common practice to deprive q
child OF some anticipated pleasure be-
cause OF . disobedience. The effect Of
such apunishment depends upon the cir
cumstances.
Suppose. for Instance. . boy has .
promise that he shall 20 to q certain
circus that Is coming in o few days, but
an occasion arises In which some sort Of
discipline must be resorted to. and he
10 told he cannot 70 to the circus.
In such q case all the antagonism of
the boys nature 10 aroused. He can see
no justice In the punishment. He sub
mite because he Is obliged to and the
only relief he has Is ia hating he ~ thor
ity yer him, q d no doubt feels q con-
tempt for a time. for one that q give q
promise and then tax, IL back. All the
matters In relation TO the coming Of The
circus, his mates all going. aud every
thing In connection with It will contin-
uslly keep his angry feelings uppermost
and he will all the time feel The iDjus-
tee OF the broken promise instead oil
repentance for his misdeed.
Now II, instead. he had been told that
he could not 60 out Of the yard again for
any p~,easure, except the circus. for a
week, nor have any boys In his own yard
to play with him during that time, but
must amuse himself as best he could
alone in consequence of his wrong do
ing, he would many times during the
week wish he had behaved himself prop
erly and would not have lhas hateful
feeling aroused towards his parents.
He would not be made unhappy by his
punishment; he would have a chance
to think OF the matter fairly and W. uld
not feel abused and outraged however
uncomfortable the restriction became.
Instead OF feeling angry at IL he would
Wish he had not one wrong. A child
needs all the sunshine II can have to 10
huei for the storms that come In after
life, aud ff IN any doubt whether a pun
ishmen., in certain cases, Is really q he
cossiiy or not, always give the child tn,
benefit NJ he doubt.
A happy child Will be tine mo t ole
dent. The ducili y OF the slave is n
what W. want Ia children. the cam
moves 10 sNi!i-r Ia fore the whip, only
behind the II ne. '-lGood Housrk 'epius.